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Point, though it is Graham Head on all those of earlier date, while Seacow Head is a 

 name now given to the point south of Graham Point, thus indicating that to it 

 especially the Indian name applies. This coincidence of English and Indian names, 

 together with the full form of the name in comparison with the other form of name 

 with the same meaning (BUSLOOACADIE, page 386), indicates that the present 

 name is rather a translation of the English name into Micmac than a genuine aborigi- 

 nal Micmac name. 



This word BÂSTOGOBÀJIT bears a close resemblance to MÈSTÛGEPEGÀ- 

 JIT, the word for Buffalo, especially when the interchangeability of M and B or F is 

 remembered. They seem not, however, to be the same word, since, according to 

 Rand, the former means "thick skinned" {Micmac-English Dictionary, 31) and the 

 latter "thick ribbed" {English- Micmac Dictionary, 46). Certainly this designation 

 for the Walrus is accurately descriptive. 



The occurrence of the Seacow or Walrus in this region is attested by ample 

 historical evidence, which is summarized for Prince Edward Island in Acadiensis, 

 III, 1903, 116, and for New Brunswick and the neighbouring part of Nova Scotia in 

 the Bulletin of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, V, 1903, 240; 1905, 

 462. 



Benacadie. 



The name of a Pond, Brook, and Point on the north side of Bras d'Or Lake, 

 between East Bay and Grand Narrows, in Cape Breton. The word occurs in Hali- 

 burton's History of Nova Scotia, II, 1829, 241, as BENAAKADY (BENAKADY on 

 his map), but earlier than that I have not as yet been able to trace it. The word 

 seems clearly Indian, and Rand gives it as the Micmac BENAKADË or BENAKADE 

 meaning THE HUMBLE PLACE {Micmac-English Dictionary, 32, 180). 



Further, Rand gives also the name BOnAAKÀDE as the Micmac name for 

 West River Lake, with the meaning REGION OF DARKNESS {First Reading Book, 

 103). There are several West Rivers in Nova Scotia, with Lakes, but there is no 

 question that Rand here refers to Sheet Harbour Lake on the West River of Sheet 

 Harbour, because in his Micmac-English Dictionary, 188, he gives the same name 

 PUNAKADE with the meaning THE PLACE OF BRINGING FORTH, as apply- 

 ing to West River and also to Sheet Harbour Lake, these two, however, being clearly 

 identical. Now this BÛNAAKÀDE of Sheet Harbour Lake and BENAKADE in 

 Cape Breton seem clearly identified by Rand as one and the same name by his list 

 of Micmac names in Dawson' s Acadian Geology, second edition, which reads, — "Buna- 

 Kaddy (Bunacadie or Benacadie) — is the place of bringing forth; a place resorted to 

 by moose in the calving-time." 



Yet further. Rand gives another form and meaning for a name which is ap- 

 parently identical with the PUNAKADE above-mentioned, — viz., PUNACADIE, 

 in Micmac UPKUNAKADE, meaning WHERE CANOES ARE BUILT {Micmac- 

 English Dictionary, 191). It is quite possible, by the way, that this PUNACADIE 

 is meant by Rand as the equivalent of PANACADIE, later mentioned (page 409), 

 in New Brunswick, which name, as there stated, is presumably identical with 

 BENACADIE. 



Thus Rand gives no less than four entirely different meanings for names which 

 seem clearly identical. It is quite possible to discover in his Dictionaries, roots which 

 match up with any of these meanings, but the very multiplicity of explanations shows 

 Rand's uncertainty as to the real construction of the word. Moreover, none of these 

 explanations, excepting possibly the third, are consistent with the presence of the 

 obvious combination -A-KA'DI-(K), which, as already explained (page 378), takes 

 with it the name of some common natural object important to the Indians. Accord- 



